All Groups (33)

ON

23 members Latest Activity: Jan 20 As part of the Poetics Centre, Birkbeck, the ON seminars are a series of round table discussions on the practice of research in poetry and poetics.…

Deleuze - Cinema 2

6 members Latest Activity: Oct 25, 2011

Reading Group for Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image"

The short fiction of J.G. Ballard

8 members Latest Activity: Jan 27 This is a group that will meet once a month (probably on a Monday) to discuss short stories by J.G. Ballard. Suggestions on relevant theory welcome…

FOUCAULT READING GROUP

28 members Latest Activity: Jan 22

For anyone interested in reading and discussing the works of Michel Foucault. We plan to start with The Archaeology of Knowledge in…

RUBBISH

34 members Latest Activity: Oct 21, 2011

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and…

Image Problems

21 members Latest Activity: Dec 15, 2011 This is a group dedicated to the discussion of the current situation of the disciplines of history of art and media studies, in the context of…

Deleuze Reading Group - A Thousand Plateaus

7 members Latest Activity: Jan 22

We are a group of research students, professors and enthusiasts, of varying degrees of Deleuzian expertise, meeting fortnightly to discuss A…

The Screen Network

25 members Latest Activity: Jan 27

We are a group of scholars, students and independent writers and researchers with an interest in the moving image. Meetings are friendly and…

Post-colonial Reading Group

10 members Latest Activity: Jan 22 This group welcomes anyone interested in Post-colonial theory and literature. Please feel free to come to the seminar to check it out and see whether…

London Renaissance Seminar

7 members Latest Activity: Jan 26

The London Renaissance Seminar is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture.

It…

PhD Media and Cultural Studies Reading Group

22 members Latest Activity: Feb 13

Reading Group organised for and by PhD students at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London

SLOW LOOKING

17 members Latest Activity: Jan 26

We meet in London museums and galleries to work directly with objects by means of 'slow looking';…

Theatre Salon Reading Group

4 members Latest Activity: Dec 6, 2011 Hosted at Birkbeck, the Theatre Salon Reading group is open to all MA/MPhil/PhD students, academics and practitioners. We meet three times a term to…

Phenomenology Reading Group

22 members Latest Activity: Jan 22 A close reading of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. We have now completed the introductory section and will be starting on Part One 'The…

Space Reading Group

51 members Latest Activity: Feb 8 A monthly reading group open to all with an interest in spatial theory and literature.

Nineteenth Century Reading Group

19 members Latest Activity: Dec 6, 2011 This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month.…

Society of the Spectacle

16 members Latest Activity: Jan 22

New reading group starting next term Oct 2011 of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord...

The Djuna Barnes Research Seminar

22 members Latest Activity: Jan 22 Hosted by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with Birkbeck College, University of London, The Seminar is devoted to reading and…

Modern Literature PhD group

51 members Latest Activity: Jan 22 Hosted by Birkbeck College, an open-to-all MA/MPhil/PhD reading group. We meet monthly to discuss key texts, listen to invited speakers, and learn…

AU HASARD - CINE CLUB

7 members Latest Activity: Feb 13

AU HASARD

Au Hasard is a new cine-club in London. Our first season of screenings are thematic double-bills with a political…